Glue the "wing" back to the board and make these two pathes: http://www.mauron.net/iphonerepair/last_... "You should first glue the corner so it is tightly fixed to the motherboard, and afterwards restore the electrical continuity between the antenna contact pad and the track going to the small coax connector, as well as between the small grouding "spring" and the motherboard ground as in the picture below." HowTo: "You would need to solder two wires. The first from the antenna pad to the track as explained in full details above. And the second to connect the grounding contact (the one you can see all the way left in the first picture, which gets pressed against the metallic frame when the board is sitted in place) to the board's ground." (From: http://www.mauron.net/iphonerepair/)

For 3G there is no real solution... Infos about 3G backlight path here: http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f631/3g-backlight-circuit-explained-last-1129485/ --- For 3GS I found two possible fixes for that problem! 1. "I fixed my backlight issue on iphone 3GS" (Jason Simmons replied 4 months ago) - http://getsatisfaction.com/apple/topics/... --- I did the same thing. Got mine wet in the lake and got back and backlight did not work. Took it apart and got what water was left out. Put it back together. Phone worked but no backlight. So I decided to take it apart again as a last ditch effort a couple of days later. Wallah!!! I fixed it. Here is how I got my backlight back to working. You have to take about your iphone. There are instructions on the web to do this. Disconnect plugs 1 and 2 and ribbon 3. I had to remove number 5 cover cafefully. It will pop off. See the image. Just above the pointed out area of the coil, there is a small area of circuity. Mine had just a little bit of corrosion. Had to look hard to see...

The WIFI antenna is in the upper part of the phone - the Cellular antenna is at the back of the dock connector assembly! They have nothing to do with each other. I found a great tutorial on the net. Maybe it will help you! "How I recovered my iPhone's lost GSM signal!" http://www.mauron.net/iphonerepair/

Update: I have been told that basically all I have accomplished is to raise the glass up above the surface of the metal case and really have not even got to the plastic bezel and disconnecting the clips. So maybe I have got no where so far.

The metal clips from Step1 (shown in red) that snap on to the plastic frame are not right at the side of the display glas (under the black rubber) but a little more to the middle!

I thought I opened the metal clips - but what I really did was broke the plastic frame! Now my plastic frame is only on the top and bottom but it still fixes the front panel...

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